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mckra1g

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Author, gardener, #FaerieManager. Feat. CNN, Christian Science Monitor, BBC, Shriver Center. Happy For No Reason® Trainer. Work in progress. Website/books etc in ABOUT tab. Chicagoan. She/hers #Fedified

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mckra1g, to books
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Everyone is at the park! It’s a beautiful evening for reading.

mckra1g,
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Okay fr i have been reading this out loud in places so that it sinks in. This is the kind of book that I would love to discuss with @mcnees because he could ‘splain it to me in civilian. My brain is pretty solid, but contrary to my opinion, I don’t know everything. 😉

mckra1g,
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@mcnees thank you!

mckra1g, to random
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I’ve never understood the allure of parking your super expensive watercraft in the harbor and drinking your Saturday away. If I had a boat, I’d be taking that baby across Lake Michigan and really using it. Does that make me plebian? 🤔

Sheril, to art
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Are you an introvert?

Terrific explainer by https://introverteed.com/blogs/news/an-introduction-to-the-introvert-social-battery

mckra1g,
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@Sheril

Precisely. I love people, but they’re exhausting. Energy allocation is key for me, and I’m highly discerning when it comes to who gets how much of my energy. Also: I’m skilled at interacting with people, but it’s exceedingly depleting. Afterwards, I require hours of solitude to recharge/recover. Heaven for me is being alone parallel w someone else. Intersecting orbits, but distinct.

matthewskelton, to random

"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

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mckra1g,
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@matthewskelton

Stares in Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; George Sand, George Eliot, and A. M. Barnard.

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luckytran, to random
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The US government is ending the program that provides free COVID vaccines to people who are uninsured and underinsured.

This is a public health failure that will further decrease already low vax rates, and puts marginalized communities at greater risk.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4670459-cdc-ending-free-covid-vaccines-uninsured/

mckra1g,
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@luckytran

This is incredibly shortsighted. Sigh.

mckra1g, to pdx
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Request for help promoting this alcohol-free bottle shop locale in Portland, Oregon. My daughter is serving as a consultant. Please follow and boost!

https://www.instagram.com/everafteralcoholfree?igsh=MWdub3lkcTFpMWZkZw==

mckra1g, to drums
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What is it about a drum fill that’s so satisfying?

(Seriously. If there’s a neurologist in the house who can speak to this, I’m all ears — no pun intended).

#random #drums #music #neurology #neuroscience

ProPublica, to Texas
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She Campaigned for a School Board Seat as a Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.

Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

New, from @JeremySchwartz

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore

mckra1g,
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@ProPublica @JeremySchwartz

Women need to push back, because GOP white, male Christo-Fascists are coming for the rights of anyone who doesn’t look like them.

“You don’t own me. …don’t tell me what to do. …don’t tell me what to say.” — Lesley Gore

https://youtu.be/JDUjeR01wnU?si=EcE_44rJA9UftWEg

mattsheffield, to random
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After ending national abortion rights, the Christian fascists have been targeting birth control and pornography.

Ben Carson has signaled the next challenge: no-fault divorce.

They'll also go for extramarital and same-sex intimacy as well.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ben-carson-making-no-fault-divorce-harder-rcna152069

mckra1g,
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@mattsheffield they want women broken, dependent on men and vulnerable.

It’s sick.

mckra1g, to climate
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The pandemic babies who were born in 2021 will probably never see a world that resembles the one we’re inhabiting now. For those who think we’ll have established a colony on Mars by then and will be shuttling humans that direction, I say wake the fuck up and take care of the planet you’re already living on. JFC.

https://youtu.be/m8HO1fGL8Ro?si=FmsvWAIG9cDVW6-Y

mckra1g, to random
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It’s days like today when I really wish teleportation existed. All three of my kids are on the west coast. We’re face timing today, but it would be great to actually see them in person.

mckra1g,
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@mcnees thank you! :blobcatcoffee:

davemark, to movies
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FANTASTIC bit of video: 🍿🔥

  • An homage to the Montblanc pen

BUT WAIT:

  • It's done by Wes Anderson and friends
  • Filled with Anderson's amazing style and movie making technique
  • Clever as hell

Wonderful...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUSRyAha37w

mckra1g,
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@davemark …the satisfied “hmmm” of settling down to write….

🎯

And now I want pretzels and hot chocolate.

GottaLaff, to Virginia
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🤦🏻‍♀️WTF

School board members in ’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – four years after those names had been removed.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/us/shenandoah-county-confederate-school-names-reaj?cid=ios_app

mckra1g,
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@GottaLaff

A “heritage” of hate. Deplorable, indeed.

AkaSci, to random
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Incoming! A severe G4 Geomagnetic Storm is expected to arrive around 02:00 UTC Friday night / Saturday morning.

At least 5 Coronal Mass Ejections took place over the past 24 hours, directed towards Earth. These originated from a large and magnetically complex sunspot cluster (NOAA region 3664).

There is potential for disruption of communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations.

And bright auroras as far south as Alabama!

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
1/n

mckra1g,
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@AkaSci so this is why I fell while roller skating this week! The disruptions on the sun affected my balance and gravitational field, thus dooming me to land at an oblique angle on my right shoulder. “Thanks,” science!

shakes fist

/s

Free_Press, to news
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COMMENT OF THE DAY!

"And if Mr Putin and the Russian officials are worried about their troops in Ukraine getting hit with weapons from other countries, then the easiest thing to do is just take your troops and leave"

video/mp4

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dangillmor, to random
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The top editor of the New York Times makes clear that his newsroom won't take a stand on the increasingly likely end of democracy in America.

I'm sick to my stomach as I read this, but I think everyone should see what cowards we have running our most important media organizations.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/joe-kahn-the-newsroom-is-not-a-safe-space

mckra1g,
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@dangillmor if I had to choose between Joe Kahn and a bear, I’d choose the bear.

His perspective of a white, heteronormative man places him at the top of society’s pecking order. He can conduct this interview safely ensconced in the theoretical buffer his privilege affords. Democracy is a hypothetical to him. Yes, he claims to represent the Fourth Estate, and defends his paper as a bulwark, but he’s absolutely aware of his ability to put the thumb on the scale of public opinion.

mckra1g, to KindActions
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Thank you for this day. 🌇

This really is a beautiful city.

#tyftd #ThankYouForThisDay #goodMorning #gratitude #ritual #thankYou #goodVibes #GoodMorningPhoto #Chicago #architecture #DailyPhoto #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #trains

RustyBertrand, to random
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Um...
OK.

I need some 'reality' anagrams.

I'm laughing tearily, yet somehow irately satisfied.

mckra1g,
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@blogdiva @RustyBertrand

“The most dangerous game,” indeed.

Also: tell me you have a weird shaped phallus without saying you have a weird shaped phallus. These incels view women as tokens/trophies and receptacles/incubators for their issue. If they could squirt their semen onto eggs and then place the zygote in a climate-controlled hatchery, thus eliminating the need for women, they would. He’s disgusting & abhorrent.

flexghost, to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON #MastodonMusic **

Tonight’s theme is:

★🎸🎧 ROCK, ROCK TIL U ROCK! 🎧🎸★

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🎵 Post hair metal from the 70s, 80s and 90s along with what you’re drinking. 🎶
—

I see your face every time I dream
On every page, every magazine
So wild and free, so far from me
You're all I want, my fantasy

🍷 Def Leppard ‘Photograph’ + Sex On The Beach🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

I have no idea why but I listen to Def Leppard pretty much every week. The drummer still has two arms in this one, so enjoy kids!

mckra1g,
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@flexghost

I skipped the honor roll picnic in high school to see my first concert: the Scorpions at the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Drinking Sauvignon Blanc.

https://youtu.be/7pOr3dBFAeY?si=d4SMdi4zFc-tUV7Y

mckra1g,
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@flexghost nope, not this time. It’s a New Zealand variety from Trader Joe’s.

But boxed wine got me through the pandemic, that’s for damn sure.

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mckra1g, to cycling
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Happiness is a bike ride on a gorgeous Friday afternoon. There are many challenges to being self employed, but the flexibility and time freedom of taking advantage of opportunities like this are worth the trade off.

GottaLaff, to Arizona
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BOOM!

“Democrats in the Legislature made a final push Wednesday to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all , which a court said can be enforced...Senate had the 16 votes it needed to advance the bill.

14 Dems in Senate were joined by two GOP votes in favor of repealing the bill, which narrowly cleared the Arizona House last week and is expected to be signed by Dem Gov. Katie Hobbs”
https://apnews.com/article/24578e546b69ca087e01034bcaf4aa01

mckra1g,
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@GottaLaff

The Chicago Abortion Fund serves communities in 18 states throughout the Midwest (including Texas).

To donate or support their work:

https://chicagoabortionfund.salsalabs.org/makeadonation/index.html

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